Humming Herald Summer 2018

South Central Llama Association

Summer 2018 • Number 108

Summer 2018 Contents General Interest There has been some confusion ............................................................... 11 A quarterly publication of the South Central Llama Association.

www.scla.us/scla.html

SCLA OFFICERS (Term 09/2011- 09/2014)

President: Susan Leslie • 830-401-0819 leslielanellamas@gmail.com Vice President: Bill Simpson •409-625-0309 OR 972-978-6229 • N5YA@N5YA.com Secretary: Adryce Mathisen, •682-551-7799 (cell); 817-866-4368 • adryce@att.net Finance/Budget: Bob Lyons • San Antonio, TX 78259 210-497-3151 Email: boblyons1@satx.rr.com

REGIONAL DIRECTORS

Region One: (Area codes: 210-361-512-737-830-956) Brandi Crockett (9/2017 - 9/2020 210-385-3293 brandicrockett@msn.com Region Two: (Area cades: 214-405-430-469-479-501-580903-918-972) Kay Simpson 9/2016 - 9/2019 409-625-0309 OR Cell 972- 977-6688 Kay@n5ya.com

Llamas say Goodbye to Karen...........................................................................12 .

John C. Henry..........................................................................................................16 Longhorned Ticks..................................................................................................18 How Llamas Conquered the world..................................................................20 What will you do with your llama fiber..........................................................26 A cria not nursing it’s mother............................................................................32 When rewilding isn’t mad...................................................................................38 Why do I need to skirt my fleece......................................................................42 Goal of Becoming a llama fleece judge!.........................................................43

Always Inside President’s Statement............................................................................................4 .

Editor’s Note............................................................................................................. 5 New Members........................................................................................................... 5 Dates Ahead.............................................................................................................. 6 Breeders List.............................................................................................................. 7 SCLA Library............................................................................................................46 Membership Application....................................................................................49

Region Three: (Area codes:254-325-432-682-817 806-940-915-505) Diana Collins 9/2015 - 9/2018 325-716-3602 dcollins1017@suddenlink.net Region Four: (Area codes: 281-318-346-409-504-713832-936-979-985) Trisha McKaskle 281-414-3584 (Term: 9/2016 - 9/2019) hitekllama@aol.com Director-At-Large: Sean Price (Term: 9/2014 - 9/2017 ) 281-830-2368 • figranch@flash.net

SCLA COMMITTEES

Activities.................................................... No chair at this time Membership................................................................................ Ana Reese Nomination . ............................Marcie Saska-Agnew-chairperson Property.....................................................................Sean Price Fund Raising..................................................................... Open Youth................................................................ Christie Stewart Finance - Budget...................................................... Bob Lyons Librarian.............................................................Barbara Welch Conference................................................ No chair at this time National Lama Intervention & Rescue Coordination Council Scholarship........................ Ruby Herron, Jaci Huth, Adryce Mathisen SCLA Booth............................................... No chair at this time Web site......................................................... Sharon Bramblett By-Laws.............................................................Jim Doyle, Bev Johnson

SHOWS - Thanks For Volunteering Your Time!

Janet White.....................................................State Fair of Texas-Dallas Jim Doyle............................Southwestern Livestock and Rodeo-Fort Worth Stephanie Clark.........................................West Texas Fair & Rodeo-Abilene Susan Leslie...............................................San Angelo Livestock Show- San Angelo Trisha McKaskle...........................................Houston Livestock Show Susan Leslie................................................. Texas Bluebonnet Classic Susan Leslie......................................Wilson County 4H Llama Show

EDITOR/DESIGN/LAYOUT

Ruby Herron 713-249-8523 • 17102 Mueschke Rd., Cypress, TX 77433 HummingHerald@FigmentRanch.com

The views expressed herein are those of the authors. Before undertaking any new regime with your llamas, you should always consult with your veterinarian. Only they can tell you what is best for your situation. We invite submission for unpaid articles and photographs.

Email to HummingHerald@FigmentRanch.com or mail to: Ruby Herron, c/o Humming Herald,17102 Mueschke Rd., Cypress,Tx., 77433

P r e s i d e n t ’s Statement

Susan Leslie, President

I hope everyone is enjoying their summer !

Summer is a wonderful time but also a very scary time for all of us llama owners.

Heat stress is a very serious problem for is here in Texas.

If you haven’t had your llamas and alpacas shorn yet this year, please look on our web sight for a listing of shearers in your area, and if you are unable to find one please give me a call and I will help you find one that can help you out. We are here for the same reason, for the love of our llamas.

Our show season will be starting up here in a few short months, so keep an eye out on those entry dates, our shows are in need of our attendance at many shows as we can attend or sponsor. The shows are a great way to reach out to the general public and help educate them on the joys of llama ownership.

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and everyone of you, we wouldn’t exist.

That being said, if you have friends or family interested in llamas, even if they don’t own them, now is a great time to get them a membership to our association.

Enjoy your summer ! Stay cool and stay safe!

Susan Leslie Leslie Lane Llamas, Owner SCLA President Leslie Lane Llamas leslielanellamas@gmail.com 830-401-0819

Editor’s Note Well summer is here, and I know everyone has fans, misters, baby pools everywhere.

My electric company loves me this time of the year. I’m always happy when I walk out in the pasture and all are upright and accounted for.

It won’t be long before I will be complaining about having to put on layers of cloths just to go feed.

New Members Compiled by Ana Reese, Membership Secretary.

Current member information is always available on the SCLA web site: http://www.scla.us SCLA Address: PO Box 163654, Austin, TX 78716

New Members: Reggi Durch Loving Llamas on Hinton Hill 2081 FM 593 Yantis, TX 75494

I wish we could have fall and spring weather all the time.

While I am wishing I will wish for showers to make everything green.

Ruby Herron Editor 713-249-8523

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Dates Ahead September 11, 2018

2018 West Texas Fair & Rodeo 1700 Hwy. 36 817-929-7852 Abilene, TX 79602 Sam McClure dmmclure@aol.com Show Contact: Show Info: http:// www.taylorcountyexpocenter.com Judge: Margaret Henry DEADLINE: AUGUST 15, 2018 _________________________________

September 21-23, 2018

2018 Central Regional 3001 General Pershing Blvd. Oklahoma State Fair 405-850-4713 Oklahoma City, OK73107 405-850-4713 Show Contact: Mark Willy Judge: Wally Baker _________________________________

September 21-23, 2018

Oklahoma State Fair Llama Show 3001 General Pershing Blvd. Oklahoma State Fair 405-850-4713 Oklahoma City, OK73107 Show Info: http://www.okstatefair.com Show Contact: Christina Abel 620-626-8743 Show Contact: Christina Abel Joy Swihart / 405-306-3872 Judge: Deb Yeagle DEADLINE: August 15, 2018 _________________________________

September 21-23, 2018

Oklahoma State Fair Alpaca Show 3001 General Pershing Blvd. Oklahoma State Fair 405-850-4713 Oklahoma City, OK73107 Show Info: http://www.okstatefair.com 6 Humming Herald - SCLA Newsletter Summer 2018

Show Contact: Christina Abel 620-626-8743 Show Contact: Christina Abel Joy Swihart / 405-306-3872 Judge: Deb Yeagle DEADLINE: August 15, 2018 _________________________________________

September 27-30, 2018

State Fair of Texas Pan American Llama Show 3921 Martin Luther King Jr.,Blvd,.

Dallas, Texas 75210 bigtex.com Show Contact: Janet White 817-343-7072 bbbs@swbell.net Show Contact: Adryce Mathisen 682-551-7799 Judge: Tricia Schneeberger _________________________________________

October 26-28, 2018 2018 ALSA Grand National Show of Champions Hutchinson, Kansas Show Contact: Glenna Overmiller 785-346-4365 twincreekllamas@yahoo.com Judge: Phil Feiner, Barb Harris, Margaret Henry Other Judges: Joy Bishop-Forshey Show Info: http://www.alsashow.org/national.html __________________________________________

SCLA Breeders List – 2016 (As of February 1, 2016) http://www.scla.us SCLA Breeders List Entry Form BILL & SALLY BACUS LLAMA LLOVE (817) 488-5078 8601 Freeman Rd. Email: sally@mypbmail.com Sanger, TX 76266 http://www.llama-llocater.com Located 8 miles west of I35 just north of Denton.

Guard and pet llamas for sale.

Also breeding an excellent line of Papillon toy dogs (http://www.papillons.us).

(10F/4M) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------RUBY HERRON, ROBIN TURELL, SEAN PRICE FIGMENT RANCH Ranch: (281) 351-1820 17102 Mueschke Rd. Ruby’s cell: (713) 249-8523 Cypress, TX 77433 Robin’s cell: (713) 249-3893 Sean’s cell: (281) 830-2368 Email: Figranch@flash.net http://www.figmentranch.com/ Since 1988, specializing in performance animals and training. We are also one of the largest suppliers of guard animals. We breed pets, show, guard and just-for-fun llamas.

Shearing available and will travel. We also take this llama/alpaca fleece and HAND-WEAVE llama and alpaca rugs (these are for sale).

Ruby is the editor of the Humming Herald, the newsletter for the South Central Llama Assoc. and the editor of the Showring Magazine, the newsletter for the Alpaca Llama Show Association (ALSA).

Robin is the executive secretary for the Alpaca Llama Show Association (ALSA).

Sean is the current president of the South Central Llama Association (SCLA).

“Home of the 2010 Grand National Advanced Performance Grand Champion” "Home of the 2011 Grand National Advanced Performance Reserve Grand Champion" "Home of the 2012 Grand National Master Performance Grand Champion" "Home of the 2013 Grand National Master Performance Reserve Grand Champion" "Home of the 2014 Grand National Master Performance Reserve Grand Champion" "Home of the 2014 & 2015 Grand National Novice Performance Reserve Grand Champion" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------SUSAN LESLIE & ANA REESE LESLIE LANE FARMS (830) 401-0819 4317 FM 539 Email: leslielanellamas@gmail.com LaVernia, TX 78121 http://www.leslielanellamas.com We specialize in training llamas and alpacas for performance and public relations. We breed for conformation, fiber and personality. We have earned 14 ALSA Grand National Performance Championships over the last 5 years.

Please contact us to set up your appointment to see our operation and let us show you around.

(50F/10M/10G Llamas) ( 4F/3G Alpacas)

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Creating Champions Leslie Lane Llamas

Susan Leslie and Ana Reese LaVernia, Tx 830-401-0819 www.leslielanellamas.com leslielanellamas@gmail.com

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There has been some confusion between an ALSA Grand Champion/Reserve Grand Champion and a Show Grand Champion/Show Reserve Champion.

Please note in the current 21st Edition ALSA Handbook: Part. G - ALSA Award System, Section. 3. A-1 *In any Division with less than five (5) entries, the Grand Champion and Reserve Grand Champion will earn points towards a ROM award; however, the Grand or Reserve Grand will not apply towards an ALSA Champion Award (refer to Section 4). Part. G, Section 4 refers to the ALSA Champion.

A show may give a Grand or Reserve Champion to acknowledge the winnings.

However, this Grand or Reserve Champion DOES NOT count towards an ALSA Champion unless there are 5 in the entire division.

For example: Take a Light Wool (LW) Halter class: In the Juvenile LW Class - there are 2 exhibitors In the Yearling LW class - there are 0 exhibitors In the 2 year old LW class - there are 2 exhibitors In the Adult LW class - there are 0 exhibitors.

The TOTAL DIVISION is 4.

The Grand/Reserve awarded are a SHOW Grand/Reserve. These DO NOT count toward an ALSA Champion.

For example: Take a Light Wool (LW) Halter class: In the Juvenile LW Class - there are 2 exhibitors In the Yearling LW class - there are 2 exhibitors In the 2 year old LW class - there are 2 exhibitors In the Adult LW class - there are 2 exhibitors.

The TOTAL DIVISION is 8.

The Grand/Reserve awarded are an ALSA Grand Champion and an ALSA Reserve Grand Champion and DO count toward an ALSA Champion.

These examples could be for any ALSA class, Halter or Performance.

Please feel free to contact the ALSA office with any questions.

Thank you!

Robin Turell, Executive Secretary | ALSA | 281-516-1442 | llamas@alsashow.org| www.ALSAShow.org

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Llamas say Goodbye to Karen

by Sharon Bramblett

After 24 years of dedicated service as Membership Secretary of the South Central Llama Association, Karen Conyngham is retiring. We would like to salute her and celebrate our appreciation for her years of service. She has given her time and talents to maintain the important membership and breeder lists, diligently sending out reminders to late payers every year to keep money in SCLA coffers.

We joined the SCLA in 1997 when we bought our first two llamas. We found the SCLA web site and Humming Herald newsletter very useful. Karen was our main contact and arranged frequent llama day-hiking trips to Pedernales State Park and organized participation in annual events such as Chuy’s post-Thanksgiving parade down Austin’s Congress Avenue and Buda’s and Fredericksburg’s Christmas parades. She and her husband, Jim, had two llamas. She encouraged us to attend the llama shows and meet llama owners from whom we purchased more llamas. Our llamas benefitted from Karen’s extensive knowledge of health and care information. She was always available to give advice or come to our farm to help.

Karen was the International Llama Registry (ILA) representative to the US Animal Health Association (USAHA) Board of Directors since 2008 - 2014.

She carries out daily online literature searches on llama and large animal health for USAHA and attended the annual meetings of the USAHA Committee on Infectious Diseases of Cattle, Bison, and Camelids, [often giving presentations on the latest issues affecting camelid health].

Karen is also a member of, and financially supports, Greater Appalachian Llama and Alpaca Association and the Rocky Mountain Llama and Alpaca Association. She donates delicately hand-knitted scarves to the above groups to help raise funds. She could be counted on for support in special times of need such as the disaster at a large animal sanctuary in Montana. Karen also supports both the Southeast and Southwest Llama Rescue organizations.

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She monitored SCLA liability insurance for the llama shows and other events such as Kid ‘N Ewe and Lamas Too fiber festival and Chuy’s Parade. Karen gave presentations on llama biology at many events. She generously gave her time and expertise to further llama welfare. Now that their last llama has passed away, they are ready to begin new adventures.

Llamas will miss her influence and representing their issues.

Karen and Jack hiking

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Attention Llama and Alpaca Owners/Breeders/Exhibitors!

We invite you to the 2018 Oklahoma State Fair in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

The Llama/Alpaca classes will be held September 21-23.

The ALSA Regional Show classes will be run concurrently with the Oklahoma State Fair Llama/Alpaca classes.

For the 2018 Show we have added classes for Alpacas and will offer a commercial trade show for Llama/Alpaca relevant products/information for Llama/Alpaca vendors! The deadline to submit applications for this Trade Show is July 1, 2018. Contact Dakota Fields at the Oklahoma State Fair: by phone 405-948-6751 or email AgCoordinator@okstatefair.com for more information.

The competition guide and class list will be available on the Oklahoma State Fair website (okstatefair.com) in early June, and the online registration process opens July 2 and closes August 15.

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Long Time SCLA Member

John C. Henry passed away Sunday, July 15, 2018

John C. Henry, 83, of Brookston, passed away Sunday, July 15, 2018, at Brentwood Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center. Mr. Henry, the son of Fred Henry & Elmer Rosie Findley Henry, was born Oct. 10, 1934, in Biardstown. He served in the U. S. Army during the Berlin Crisis. His career spanned many years working at B & W, Uarco, and his final years spent at Blossom Machine where he had many dear friends.

He & his wife, Margaret, raised cutting horses and llamas for a number of years. J. C. loved all the friends he made during those years. He was a member of The Cowboy Church. J. C. was preceded in death by his parents and five brothers; Raymond, Jim, Gerald, Hal, and Bill Henry. Survivors include his wife, Margaret Weaver Henry, whom he married in 1956, building sixty-one years of family and memories, children; Rickey Henry & wife Bo of Reno, Debby Ervin of Brookston, Donna Fasinpaur & husband Ron of Pryor, OK, and Dana Henry of Norman, OK, eleven grandchildren, ten great grandchildren, and a sister, Shirley Reed of Paris along with a plethora of friends.

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Longhorned Ticks

Texas Outdoor enthusiasts, livestock producers, homeowners advised to watch for new tick “This tick is a relative newcomer to the United States and though it has not been confirmed here in Texas, it has been confirmed in Arkansas,” she said. “It’s not at all choosy about who or STEPHENVILLE – Confirmed reports of upon what mammal it feeds on or who it dines with, as it has been found the longhorned tick, Haemaphysalis longicornis, in six states feeding right alongside other external parasites.” have prompted a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service entomologist to alert Texans to its possible arrival here.

Writer: Steve Byrns, 325-653-4576, s-byrns@tamu.edu Contact: Dr. Sonja Swiger, 254-968-4144, slswiger@ag.tamu.edu

Dr. Sonja Swiger, AgriLife Extension veterinary/ medical entomologist at Stephenville, said the longhorned tick isn’t named for the iconic bovine symbol of the Lone Star State, but rather for the distinctive, but underrated “horns” sprouting from a portion of its head.

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longicornis, pictured on a U.S. dime. The keeping an eye on. smaller tick is a nymph, the other is an adult female. (Photo by James Gathany, “It’s an exotic East Asian provided by Anna Perea, Centers for tick, originally from China, which moved Disease Control and Prevention) to Australia and then to different locations in the Pacific and eventually Some ticks, like the cattle fever tick, here,” Swiger said. “It’s highly prefer to complete their life cycle on adaptive to a broad range of climates a single host. Not the longhornedtick, as evidenced by the six states where which Swiger said is a three-host tick, it’s been documented, which along with meaning it requires three different Arkansas, include New Jersey, Virginia, hosts to complete its life cycle. Animals West Virginia, North Carolina and New on the menu include, but are not limited York. So, it’s at home in climates from to: cattle, white-tailed deer, horses, tropical to temperate and is also quite goats, sheep, dogs, cats, opossum, birds cold tolerant.” and raccoon.

Swiger said it’s an aggressive Swiger said she has no biter that frequently builds intensive reports of it feeding on people in the infestations on domestic hosts such as U.S., though it is known to attack people livestock. in Asia and the Pacific. She did say the longhorned tick is not a known carrier “Their presence causes great of the pathogen causing Lyme disease. stress to the animal, which translates to reduced growth and production, and “Even though there are no reports of exsanguination, or serious blood loss,” it being a Lyme disease carrier, this tick she said. is a known vector of several bacterial, viral and protozoan disease To make matters worse, agents that affect both livestock and Swiger said the tick is parthenogenetic, humans,” Swiger said. “So, it’s worth meaning females can reproduce without 16 Humming Herald - SCLA Newsletter Summer 2018

a male, so a single fed female tick can create a whole population by herself.

To prevent and offset concerns, Swiger said producers, homeowners and hunters this fall should consider conducting surveillance of ticks on their livestock, pets and harvested game and submit any suspicious ticks they find to: Texas Animal Health Commission, StateFederal Laboratory and follow instructions at http://www.tahc.state. tx.us/vets/TicksandFlyLarvae Submissions.pdf.

“If historic record is any indication, once it arrives, it appears the longhorned tick is here to stay,” she said. “But with diligence and management similar to that used with other tick species, serious trouble can be kept to a minimum.”

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How llamas conquered the world August 16, 2017 5.51am EDT

Llamas recently have become a relatively common sight around the world. Whether you live in England or New South Wales, Canada or New Zealand, you don’t have to go too far to find a llama now. Indeed thousands of llamas are registered in the UK, where the species has emerged as a popular (if seemingly unlikely) choice for many aspiring livestock owners and is winning new admirers by the day.

While the llama is currently on the up, its history has not always been so rosy. Reared intensively by the Incas, llamas suffered severely at the hands of the Spanish conquistadors and still lack the genetic diversity they enjoyed in Pre-Columbian times.

But over the past few decades, llamas have flourished as a global commodity, fulfilling novel roles and gaining an international profile.

So how has the llama gone from near extinction to global sensation?

The ancestors of the llama originated in the Great Plains of North America around 4050m years ago and migrated to South America 3m years ago, when a land bridge formed between the two continents. Llamas themselves are believed to be descended from guanacos – their wild cousins – and were first domesticated around 4,500BC. As the only livestock to be domesticated by humans anywhere in the New World, South American camelids fulfilled a role in the Andes equivalent to horses, cattle and sheep in Europe, furnishing ancient Peruvian civilisations with transportation, clothing and sustenance. They occupied a crucial place in the cultures of the Nazca (c. 200BC600AD), Moche (c. 0-700AD), Wari (c. 600-1000AD) and Chimu (c. 1300-1470AD).

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Llama figurine, Chimu culture (c. 900-1470AD). Helen Cowie, Author provided

Llamas are most closely associated with the Incas, who used them as beasts of burden and sacrificed thousands of the animals every year to their gods. In the month of Capac Raymi (January), for instance, they sacrificed 100 camelids with “long wool and stiff straight tails”; in the following month, Camay (February), they sacrificed 100 “light brown” camelids, “white from the knees down, with white heads”.

While such large numbers of sacrifices might have been expected to seriously reduce llama numbers, careful management ensured that the flocks survived and prospered.

The Incas refrained from killing female llamas, to ensure that stocks remained for breeding. They also developed a novel method of treating a disease called “carache” (probably scabies), burying afflicted beasts “at once, deep in the ground” to prevent

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them infecting the entire flock. They also conducted a census of camelids every November to calculate their number, recording the results in quipus – knotted threads employed as a form of account keeping.

Llamas transporting bars of silver across the Andes, Theodore de Bry (Frankfurt, 1602). Helen Cowie, Author provided

Unfortunately, such careful practices were not maintained after the Spanish conquest, and the llama faced annihilation. While some wild species (such as jaguars) likely benefited from the arrival of the Spanish – and the consequent reduction of the human population of the Americas – llamas suffered the same fate as their human owners.

Over-exploited for their meat, attacked by newly imported diseases and out-competed for grazing by sheep, llamas perished in huge numbers, experiencing a demographic decline of 80-90% in the first 100 years after the conquest. Llamas were initially very much victims of globalisation, their numbers plummeting dramatically during the “Columbian Exchange” of the 16th century.

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But since then, llama populations have gradually rebounded and extended their range beyond South America. Between 1773 and 1778, the veterinary school at Alfort in France possessed a llama, which was examined by the famous naturalist George Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon. In 1805, the first llama to be exhibited in Britain was put on display at Brookes’s Menagerie in London, and by 1829 London Zoo owned two llamas. One of these – of the white variety – was described as “gently, mild and familiar”; the other – a brown animal – as “morose” with a penchant for spitting at visitors.

Mrs Harriet Franklin poses with a llama at the zoo (1912). Helen Cowie, Author provided

Today, llamas are big business and their uses have expanded to include livestock guarding, therapy and agility training.

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In Peru and Bolivia, the animals continue to be used as beasts of burden in rural areas and retain some of their sacred connotations. They also appear increasingly as tourist attractions, gambolling around the Inca ruins at Machu Picchu and posing for photographs in Cuzco and other tourist hot spots. In 2014, the Bolivian government lobbied the United Nations to make 2016 the International Year of Camelids, emphasising the “economic and cultural importance of camelids in the lives of people living in areas where they are domesticated�.

Beyond South America, llamas have been employed to protect sheep, comfort the sick and stock many a hobby farm. In the US, a llama named Rojo conducts regular visits to hospitals, schools and old people’s homes in Oregon, while a golf course in North Carolina employs several llamas as caddies. Llamas have also been used in various parts of the globe to protect livestock from predators, shielding sheep, calves and poultry from attacks by foxes, wolves and coyotes.

Llama Daddy Warbucks entertains residents at the Spokane Rehabilitation Center, 1977. Helen Cowie, Author provided

The llama is one victim of globalisation to survive demographic catastrophe and come out the other side an international animal, loved, farmed and traded around the world.

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What will you do with your llama fiber?

Handspun yarn : Dyeing : Knitted : Crotched : Weaving : Felting : Needle Felting : Rugs Judy Ross, Good News Llamas http://goodnewsllamas.com - ross@marshall.edu A crotched and felted purse from handspun llama fiber

Finding a local fiber / spinning guild or yarn shop can provide resources, classes and a place to meet people that can assist you in your new fiber adventure. You can also create a market for your fiber and hand made products by setting up demonstrations and displays in your community. It will not be long until the “fiber fever” sets in and from my own experience your house will never be the same. Every spare inch of room will be filled with fiber, wheels, looms, books and patterns. It only took me a year to learn what the term “stash” means. Waiting eagerly each spring for the fiber shows to begin and add ‘just one more thing” that I really need to my stash. Getting the entire family involved helps them understand your frenzy, or should we say passion?

Why do we shear and harvest the fiber from our llamas?

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The comfort and health of the llama and to prevent heat stress and death To use the versatile fiber for spinning, felting, rugs and many other uses

It is helpful to understand about llama fiber before you decide what you will make or if you choose to sell your fiber and fiber products. You don’t want the prickly fiber for a sweater or the silky slippery fiber for socks. A llama that is experiencing some type of stress, has poor nutrition or has health problems can have very weak and dull fiber. You can spend hours preparing the fiber, spinning the yarn and find it will break apart with the tension needed to weave, knit or crochet. Take time to learn about each of your llamas, touch and groom them often. This builds a relationship and most llamas like to be groomed.

Before you shear decide how you want to use the fiber from your llama. If you only want to cool the llama for summer; then you don’t have to do a lot. If you want to be able to make something from your favorite llama then a little more work is involved.

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What type of fiber does your llama have? Each llama will be different. Some llamas are double coat and some single coat. Light wool, medium wool, heavy wool. Do you have a Suri or a Silky?

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Llamas with silky wool that lays close to the body seem to be hotter than those with a fluffy fleece. They seem to sweat more and the fiber will mat close to the skin

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Light wool llamas - their fiber is dense and the skin needs to breathe the same as a heavy wool llama. Sometimes we only shear them every other year. We use the soft down from the light wools for felting. It makes a really smooth surface

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Double coat, guard hair, course hair that sticks up, and then a soft under coat

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Single coat (soft, silky, no guard hair)

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Is the fiber course and itchy? Suitable for rugs or even lead ropes. Guard hair in llama fiber causes the prickle factor, or the “it itches me” factor. You can dehair your fleece by holding the fiber and pulling out the guard hair that is sticking up or some mills will do it for you

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The fine, delicate fiber that is the soft undercoat (down) is best for spinning and making products that will be close to your skin

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Can you see Crimp or waviness like a new perm? The crimp adds memory and loft (makes it light and airy) to your yarn that helps that sweater to not sag

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BEFORE you shear! Take time to blow out your llama. If you do not have a blower you can use a leaf blower ( NOT around the HEAD), reverse your vacuum cleaner to blow out or a livestock blower can be purchased.

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Grooming, so many ways! We use the bristle brushes that seem to pull less and the slicker brush after some cleaning has been done. Wands and picking is also a way to remove the large debris. It is best to shampoo the llama and let the wool dry completely , then blow and brush the fleece to get the dirt and vegetable matter out of it. The dirt dulls the blades of both the scissors and shears. Clean fiber is ideal, but we don't always have the time to do it properly. Try to keep a good long length to the fiber when you take it off. Do not snip little pieces until you reach the desired length. The long fiber will be much easier to have spun into yarn and made into something special.

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Hand Shears: You need a lot of practice to do a good job and need to be more careful because they are very sharp and can cut you as well as the llama.

Scissors: These are easy to use and fit well in a small hand. The llamas seem to tolerate the scissors quite well. The hand shears or scissors give a bit of a scalloped effect that grows out looking very nice. Leave about ½ to 1 inch of wool on the body m to protect from sunburn.

Electric Shears: They are wonderful but can be quite heavy. When using electric shears, you will shear to the skin, leaving about ¼ inch on the body. The finished job is even and smooth, but keep in mind, they shear very close. So if you do not have shade and fans where the llamas can relax during the sunny hours, they could get sunburned. Apply sunscreen to prevent sunburn.

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Lion Cut

Barrel Cut

Blaze a heavy wool breeding male is shown here with a FULL body cut, notice the shoulders, hips and neck have also been shorn. This gives a COOL cut for breeding males and allows the beautiful body to be seen. Donna Moore showing for Good News Llamas Can I do it myself and what will I need? Yes a little time and patience is the key to success.

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A clean well lighted area. We like to have other llamas around if possible to help with calming the one we are shearing. FOOD is always a good thing too. Something to put the fiber in. A container to put your GOOD fiber in and a bag for your more coarse fiber.

Some sort of restraint is helpful. A chute, small stall or coral can be used. EXTRA help to gather the fiber and HOLD the llama Electric shears, hand (sheep) shears or for the beginner we recommend Fiskars soft touch scissors that can be purchased at WalMart, JoAnn fabrics

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Now you have your fiber – what next?

You can send it to a processing mill to be put into a roving or a batt You can use hand cards or a drum carder to process your fiber If your fiber is clean you can just spin from the locks.

How to store your fiber – everyone has their favorite way, this is what we do •

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Skirt (separating the good from the bad) your fiber removing any debris, second cuts, belly or other course fiber, mats, burrs.

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Wash your fiber before storing if you do not send it to a processing mill, dirty fiber will attract moths. I fill my bath tub with hot water and a little dawn dish liquid. GENTLY push fiber in the water let soak for 15 minutes. GENTLY squeeze out water. Rinse the same way; do not let the water run directly on the fiber and press out the excess water. I then put the fiber in a mesh bag and put it in the washer on SPIN CYLCE ONLY turning off all water. Lay out to dry. WET fiber will mold. Store fiber away from light in a clean dry area.

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Write the llamas name, age and date of shearing on the bag. We use brown paper bags that allow the fiber to breath or we put the clean dry fiber in a plastic sealed container. We do not store for very long as our fiber is sold or used. We have found that plastic bags will draw moister and allow the fiber to sweat.

The internet has anything you ever wanted to know about fiber, grooming, spinning, knitting, felt and weaving. just “Google” !

Processing Mills: http://www.ovnf.com/ Ohio Valley Natural Fibers Fiber Co-ops: http://www.midwestfiber.com/ Midwest Fiber Company - Ohio based

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Fiber Guilds: http://goodnewsllamas.com/fiberguild/ River Cities Fiber Clan This is our guild and we have a links page with a listing of mills, yarn shops, spinning supplies and much more Now for any leftover fiber: Birds love the fiber you discard on the ground to make nests You can use your really yucky fiber for bedding for your pets. Put it in a zipped pillow case. The heat from the fiber will help keep your pet warm in the winter.

Know a fisherman? The guard hair is used in fishing lures Crafters like the fiber for doll hair and Santa beards Invite a 4H club, church group or just your neighbors for a felting in a bag party!! Just put some of the fiber in a ZIP LOCK sandwich bag, add some hot water a drop or two of dishwashing liquid and squeeze out the air, ZIP it up and RUB (agitate ) for about 10 min. Keep checking and you can tell when it felts. Rinse in cold water, squeeze out excess water lay flat to dry. You can then cut out designs for a Christmas ornament, sew together to make a purse, a coaster and many other uses.

We have these beautiful hand woven rugs made from our course and shorter fiber

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A Cria Not Nursing It’s Mother Here is information that may be useful to anyone with a cria not nursing its mother:

I have nursed and saved several premature crias and crias whose mothers had insufficient colostrum.

The time line for administering substitute colostrum is critical; 12 hours after birth the cria's intestinal wall is closing, and after 24 hours colostrum is no longer effective. However, it is possible to administer sufficient vitamins, minerals, electrolytes, essential Live Probiotics, added to nursing milk or by container tube one side of their mouth.

My vet recommends injectable MU-SE second day, as well. Many crias are unlike kids or lambs, and will resist accepting a nursing nipple, thus must be held with one arm while nipple is forced into their mouth. Minimum 10% of their weight per day is required for survival and growth. They may take only 3 or 4 ounces at a time at first, then gradually increase to 8 to 15 ounces in a few days. This means frequent feedings, just like their own mother would 30 Humming Herald - SCLA Newsletter Summer 2018

do. This is a MAJOR physical commitment for you to accomplish with any success. It is a choice between life and death, and if you cannot commit to it, best to euthanize mercifully.

The best substitute milk is fresh sheep or goat. Pasteurization will ensure no pathogens are transferred.

Pasteurization also destroys all of the essential enzymes the cria desperately needs. Pasteurized goat milk may be available in your grocery store. Raw cow or goat milk may be available in your local health food store (very expensive; Worth it!) , needed only for the first couple of weeks, then pasteurized goat, cow, or powdered supplement may be used.

Llama milk is sweeter and richer than these others, so 1/2 teaspoon of Karo syrup can be added, along with a tablespoon of heavy cream to each 8 ounces. Watch for signs of diarrhea; lessen sweetener and cream if bowels become too loose. Do Not use honey!

The nipple is very important. I have been unsuccessful in getting any cria to accept the Pritchard's teat nipple. I use a black rubber lamb nipple on a flexible plastic bottle. Cosmetic bottles from a variety store with the proper size top, 8 oz. work best. Premier 1 makes a 16 ounce lamb/kid nursing bottle that works, but the smaller 8 ounce size is easier to hold when a cria is unwilling to help. You can carefully squeeze the flexible bottle just enough at a time to get cria to swallow the milk. Some will learn and cooperate, some will not.

By three months of age the cria will be eating enough solid food that it may be able to survive with only a cria creep; baled alfalfa and llama pellets mixed with rolled barley available 24/7 where other llamas cannot get to it.

Never heat milk in a microwave; destroys enzymes. Heating on stove top can do the same to milk in bottom of pan. I use a very large plastic insulated cup filled with very hot water, place the nursing bottle in it.

Vitamin E and Selenium also comes as BO-SE stronger formula Prescription med our vet lets us keep on hand since we are breeders/ packers, herd of 40.

We also administer multivitamin paste, and probiotic paste, second day.

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hours post birth . This can be almost as important as colostrum. If cria retains the plug and cannot defecate it will not be able to continue to ingest milk after a time. We keep an enema syringe and mineral oil on hand to use when necessary, a few hours after birth.

Lorene Grassick http://facebook.com/Highlandllamatrekkers

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BLUEBONNET HILL LLAMAS Bob & Joan Lyons San Antonio, Texas 210.497.3151

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When rewilding isn’t mad: guanacos can transform the espinal of Chile March 19, 2014 11.48am EDT

Longing to return to its espinal home. Poco a poco, CC BY-NC-SA

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Rewilding is considered one of the crazier ideas in contemporary conservation. The idea of resurrecting woolly mammoths and setting them loose in Siberia and the American Great Plains or lions roaming through central Europe is pretty mad. Mostly though, rewilding is much less barmy to the point of being conventional.

Rewilding projects tend to have some features in common that distinguish them from your typical conservation programme. These include, reintroducing a species (such as elephants) or introducing a proxy species (such as elephants in the place of extinct woolly mammoths). They also often seek to restore the ecology of the location (such as by creating a new habitat type or by improving the existing one) and tend to have a significant social impact as a result of the species reintroduction and habitat restoration.

To a large degree, we already know how to do habitat restoration and species reintroductions. The interesting challenge and innovative potential of rewilding comes from combining these three elements of restoring and reintroducing a species, and closely interacting with society in the process.

There are many approaches to rewilding, each drawing on the regional problems and conservation specialities of different places. In Europe, megaherbivores such as deer, horses and bison have commonly been used to create and maintain certain habitats in abandoned or reclaimed land. In the US, rewilding has focused on reintroducing threatened and iconic species such as wolves. Rewilding commonly uses species that play into cultural legacies and landscapes of the region.

North-South divide Interestingly, there has been almost no discussion to date of what rewilding would look like in the global South. We tend to think that the South still has plenty of primary forest and pristine wilderness, constituting conservation priorities: why “re-” wild when it is already “genuinely” wild? In many cases, of course, these “pristine” habitats formed relatively recently after human activity or natural disasters.

It is also not the case that all conservation priority areas in developing countries are being well conserved under current approaches. Places that are not scenic or that host human activity are less likely to be designated as parks and reserves. For example the semi-arid caatinga forest in northern Brazil is highly threatened, but little effort is made to protect it.

This is also the case with the espinal savanna in central Chile. The three-pronged approach of rewilding can provide an innovative method of conservation in some of these overlooked habitats of the Southern Hemisphere.

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America. We started with the question of how to better manage and adequately conserve the espinal, a common savanna of central Chile.

The Chilean Espinal is dominated by a South American acacia called “espino” (“thorn tree”) and is traditionally used to pasture sheep, goats and cattle. Chileans think of the espinal as lacking wildlife and other natural values, often describing it as “empty.”

However, from a biological point of view, central Chile is a hotspot of unique native species, and the only mediterranean-type habitat in South America.

If well-managed, espinals can have abundant biodiversity of flowers, birds, small mammals and other species. Being semi-arid, it is important that shade from trees is maximised to improve productivity. We know that the espino is stimulated to grow more when it is pruned, which creates more shade.

Guanacos restore the espinal. Meredith Root-Bernstein

This trait, called compensatory growth, is likely to be an adaptation to it having been pruned (eaten) by a megaherbivore in the past – one that is no longer present in espinal.

We think that this missing species is the guanaco.

Guanacos are a relative of llamas and were hunted out of central Chile 500 years ago.

Our project will return them from Southern Chile to espinal to study their foraging on the trees, how the trees grow in response and how the ecosystem responds.

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Restoring espinals will have wider effects on the area too. They should increase the productivity of sheep, goat and cattle ranching. Guanaco wool is also a valuable comodity and can be traded internationally under the CITES convention. Plus, our research so far shows that guanacos are well-liked and their presence in espinal landscapes would increase the Chilean public’s appreciation of and interest in visiting espinals to see endemic wildlife.

The goal of guanaco rewilding in the espinal is to establish a new conservation strategy in central Chile – where wild animals and sustainable, high-quality agriculture can coexist. We aim to provoke a re-evaluation of the area, by working within local values and preferences. We hope that the guanaco will become the flagship for conservation action in central Chile. And perhaps also the flagship for new visions of rewilding around the world.

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Why do I need to Skirt my fleece?

Why do I need to Skirt my fleece? Skirting removes the undesirable part of the fleece. A fleece will skirt easier right after shearing, the longer it sets the more difficult is it to skirt as the fibers will begin to mesh/felt together. Just remove what you don’t want!

Lay your fleece out on a skirting table, old piece of screen or any flat service. A fleece may contain second cuts (tiny pieces at the end of the cut end of the lock), urine stains, mats, course belly fibers, hay and other vegetable matter. The skirting will produce a cleaner fleece and a more usable end product. A clean fleece will save on shipping and processing costs if you send your fleece to a mill. A fleece you are entering for completion in a fleece show MUST be skirted before entering.

Washing your fleece will remove dirt, body oils and some of the vegetable matter. Carding will align the fibers in the same direction to be made into rovings or batts, but again does not remove the unwanted fiber and vegetable matter.

A beautiful skirted show fleece Below a skirting table that can be set up on saw horses. Our table is 60 inches by 36 inches. We used ¾ by ½ inch wood and ½ inch square welded mess wire. This works well for the smaller pieces and dirt to fall through.

It is portable and easy to store.

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Goal of Becoming a llama fleece judge! What has worked for me and what would have helped Judy Ross, Good News Llamas

As I began my journey and evaluated our own herd I soon realized how our llama fleece had improved in the past few years. Education, nutrition and a new focus on breeding has produced a luxurious llama fleece that will become a valuable asset in the fiber market. Hand spinners that have purchase our fleeces comment on how the quality has improved and how much more usable it is for them as they turn their yarns into beautiful handmade items. My love and appreciation of the fleece our llamas give us has given me a desire to be able to encourage others to not only exhibit their fleeces but to learn and experience the joy of being a fiber artist and enjoy beautiful products made from their own llamas.

Judging to me is more than being able to write down a number on a score sheet. I had to understand the fleece from the “ beginning to the end” to be able to fairly judge. How can I truly know what I am judging if I don’t understand the circle of life for this fleece. To me a fleece is more than the entry in a “clear plastic bag”.

• As an exhibitor – This allows me to know the amount of work needed to prepare a fleece for exhibition. To understand the proper grooming , shearing and skirting techniques that has been used to prepare this fleece for competition.

• As a hand spinner – To feel the fleece slide through my fingers and imagine the beautiful garments that can be produced.

• My experience with dyeing gives me the understanding of the makeup of the llama’s fiber and how it reacts to natural and chemical dyes.

• As I knit, crochet and weave I understand how the yarns or rovings become usable finished products, understanding the concept of blending other fibers to make an even more usable garment. The warmth and weight of the products you produce depending you the types of yarns you use. You don’t use the prickly yarns for items that touch your body, silky will not make good socks.

• As a felter to see how beautiful the fibers compress and strengthen • To know why crimp is important, does guard hair have a use, why is fiber length important?

• Learning why density is so important I felt in order to be a knowledgeable judge it would take more than just what I had learned at the clinic and apprenticing at shows. HANDS-ON that’s what I needed – to touch and compare!

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I felt in order to be a knowledgeable judge it would take more than just what I had learned at the clinic and apprenticing at shows. HANDS-ON that’s what I needed – to touch and compare!

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I was blessed that a certified fleece instructor allowed me to work with her for an entire day, evaluating all types of fleece, comparing them to each other, comparing family groups, different sexes. I learned more at this hands-on setting than all of my four show apprentices combined. It was a relaxed atmosphere with time to look at the clinic manual while having your questions answered from the instructor. I was able to really put to use what I had learned.

Questions: Prior experience - If you are not an exhibitor or work with fleece how do you understand the concept of “why process fiber for use”. Should a fleece judge only need to be able to compare the fleeces and arrive at a score? To me there should be more knowledge needed.

Honesty and fairness – setting an allotted number of fleeces needed to complete apprentices has been done in the past, but if the apprentice still does not have the understanding, then don’t send them out to judge. Some may get it in 20 fleeces judged if they work with fleece a lot, others may take 50 fleeces. More focus needs to be on actual fleece evaluations and thinking about the marketability of that fleece.

Knowledge of filling out the paper work, the clinics do not cover this very well VERBAL reasons – maybe a workshop for this and you could incorporate the paper work Communication - The judge needs to be able to communicate with the exhibitor in the FLEECE ON CLASSES, taking is needed in this class, as I entered my first walking fleece the judge explained so much to me that it encouraged me to want to learn and enter more.

Re-Certify - At first I did not agree with having to re-certify but I have changed my thoughts on this. As the quality of fleeces change and more options are given, then judges need to know rule changes, fiber types and new uses that have been developed. Maybe a different type of re-Certification clinic, not the standard advanced clinic as has been done in the past.

Learning Workshops, field evaluations, clinics at farms for part of the apprenticeship rather than having to do everything at shows.

Having a class for fleece show clerks??

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Books A Guide to Raising Llamas – Gale Birutta (10132) A Well Trained Llama – By Paul & Betty Barkman (10167) Along Came a Llama -- Welsh farmer adds a llama to her farm (10041) ALSA Llama Judging Clinic (10098) Aunt Millie’s Guide to Llama Fiber - By Mike Brown (10166) Body Scoring Llamas & Alpacas, by Bob Beede, DVM (10128) Before and After Llamas -- humor (10086) Building Small Barns, Sheds and Shelters -- Monte Burche (10116) Camel's Zoo Book 2 -- children (10023) Caring for Llamas, A Health and Management Guide (10043) Caring for Llamas and Alpacas - 2nd. ed. (10043) Evaluating a Llama Pack for Comfort and Function (10122) Fifty Things to Do With a Llama by B. James (10147) Felt making Techniques & Projects by I. Evers (10149) Handbook for Llamas -- first aid (10017) Hands On Spinning -- Lee Raven (10107) Harley – by Star Livingston Illustrated by Molly Bang (10173) Heat Stress; Prevention & Management, by Myra Freeman -- (10130) I Care About My Animals – animal rights guide (10124) If I was a Llama -- children (10112) Llamas & Alpacas as a Metaphor for Life - by Marty McGee – (10148) Llama&AlpacaNeonatalCare,byB.Smith,DVM;K.Timm,DVM;P.Long,DVM.--(10131) Llama Babies -- Up, Dry & Nursing -- Anderson (10133) Llama Driving – By Ron Shinnick (10169) Llama Nutrition Clinic Notes -- LaRue Johnson, DVM (10138) Llama Packing for Youth, by the ILA Youth Committee -- (10129) Llama Training on Your Own – Helen Bodington (10168) Living with Llamas -- Rosana Hart (10020) Llamas Can Beat the Heat -- Texas cooling techniques (10035) Llama Medicine and Surgery -- Texas A&M (10022) Llama Medicine, Veterinary Clinics of North America -- (10082) Llama Training, Who's in Charge -- (10027) Llamas: Their Personality and Expressions -- (10114) Llama Tricks -- Step by Step Method -- by Linda Hayes -- 10142 Leaders Manual for 4-H Llama Activities (10156) Love a Llama -- children (10097) Making the Most of Your Llama – By Linda Beattie (10165) 44 Humming Herald - SCLA Newsletter Summer 2018

Medicine & Surgery of South American Camelids -Fowler (10135) Medicine & Surgery of South American Camelids – 2nd ed., (10153) Packing with Llamas -- (10048) Raising Llamas in Alberta, Why Are They So Popular? -- (10123) Roberts Rules of Order (10152) Ruminations from the Back Forty - by John Mallon (10178) SCLA 1992 Conference -- ring binder (10104) SCLA 1993 Conference -- ring binder (10079) SCLA 1994 Conference -- ring binder (10100) SCLA 1995 Conference – ring binder (10080) SCLA 1996 Conference – ring binder (10130) SCLA 1998 Conference – ring binder (10150) SCLA 2000 Conference – ring binder, (10163) Scraping Heaven - by Cindy Ross, donated by Teresa King (10179) Secrets of the Andes (10040) So You Share Your Life with a Llama - by Susan Peterson (10177) Speechless Brothers (10106) Spinning Llama & Alpaca -- by Chris Switzer (10134) Spinning Llama & Alpaca 2nd Edition – By Chris Switzer (10171) The Camelid Companion (Handling and Training your Alpacas and Llamas) –

by Marty McGee Bennett (10172) The Field Guide ... In Search of the Ideal Llama – conformation info (10113) The TTEAM Approach -- McGee (10117) The (Mis)adventures of the Llamas at Hunter Hill – Hubbard, Ryberg (10174) Today and Tomorrow Llama Investment Analysis --1990 (10047) Turning Wool into a Cottage Industry -- (10042) The Waldo Chronicles -- a training log -- (10129) Veterinary Llama Field Manual - By Norman Evans (10145) Youth Llama Project -- 4H guidebooks (10045) 4H Instructions -- SCLA (10118) Packing with Llamas 4th edition - Stanlynn Daugherty (10161) Notes from Dr. Norman Evans' llama conference on 4/1/2000 (10164) 3rd Annual Camelid Health Program - Ohio State University (10170)

Newsletters and Magazines SCLA Humming Herald Red Hot Llamas -- Smithsonian 8/94 (10101) Newsletters from other llama associations

Video Tapes All About Llamas I -- Llama Basics (10007) All About Llamas II, Breeding, Birthing and Newborns -- (10008) Animals on the Farm -- Video aimed at children/4-H clubs - (10134) Basic T.T. E.A.M. with Llamas - by Marty McGee (10005) Camelid Handling Secrets Volume 1 Medical Management - (10025) Click & Reward -- Training Video -- (10141) Click and Reward – Vol. II –(10159) The Competitive Edge in the Showring -- ALSA guidelines (10073) Felt Making by Hand -- Basic Process -- Vickrey (10143) Fences, Barns and Feeders (10085) Five Star Llama Packing (10001) Grooming and Basic Training -- SCLA (10063) How to Use the Kwick and Slick Grooming Tool – (10160) ILA Marketing Video (10111) In Search of the Ideal Llama -- conformation (10095) Inside 4-H Llamas – By ILA (10155) Llama Reproduction -- Part I & II (10009/10) Llama Training with Bobra Goldsmith -- (10003) Mallon Method, The - Difficult to Halter (10180) Mallon Method, The -- The First 24 Hours (10125) Mallon Method, The -- Halter Training Basics (10140) Rolfing a Llama -- (10103) SCLA 1995 Ft Worth Sale -- (10108/09) SCLA 1994 Conference Awards -- (10102) SCLA 1998 Conference Videos (two) – (10151) SCLA Seminar -- (Jensen) heat stress, nail trimming (10011) Spinning Wool, Basics and Beyond -- by P Zawistoski (10139) Step by Step Shearing -- for alpacas and llamas (10126) Texas A & M Seminar -- (Fowler) infectious disease & heat stress (10013) Teaching Your Llama to Pack – Marty McGee with Stanley Daugherty –video – TWO COPIES: --(10158) Texas Country Reporter – featuring John & Linda Keltgen (10157) Training Llamas to Drive -- (10044) Treasures of the Andes -- PBS (10090) "Treating" your Llama Kindly -- handling techniques with Dr. LaRue Johnson and Marty Mcgee (10128) TTEAM Approach to Herd Management -- McGee (10070) Vermonters Just Like to Felt Hats – video (10154) What Do You Do with a Llama? -- photography, Ley (10119) Why llamas? -- (10014)

Wonderful World of Llama Wool, The -- McGee (10121) Working In the Round Pen (3 tapes) John Mallon - 10124 Working with Difficult Llamas....by Ken Ploeser, (10162)

DVDs Llama Talk -- Cathy Spalding, Gentle Spirit Llama Training with Bobra Goldsmith Running of the Llamas: a documentary by Heidi Freier c. 2008 (10200) Spinning Luxury Fibers (3 DVD set) Judith MacKenzie Spinning Wool, Basics and Beyond -- by P Zawistoski Mallon Method, The -- Difficult to Halter Mallon Method, The -- The First 24 Hours Mallon Method, The -- Halter Training Basics Vermonters Just Like to Felt Hats -- The Herd of Northern Vermonters Wonderful World of Llama Wool, The -- McGee Working In the Round Pen (3 DVD set) John Mallon

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